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  • Tankies are so fucking weird to me, and I would consider myself a progressive socialist as well.

    How can they so unapologetically support Russia and China, when both nations are objectively not socialist in any sense of the word.

    China does state capitalism, just because they have a one party state installed by the communist party doesn’t automatically mean they still are. All that is left is intense authoritarianism, with dystopian ambitions on global hegemony.

    Russia is a failed state in the grasp of a kleptocratic oligarchy, with an extreme degree of corruption and disturbing moral decay in all levels of society. The only thing communist about it today is the old soviet ordnance they make their conscripts die in at the ukranian front.

    Modern China and Russia are antithetical to actual leftist ideals, and any tankie supporting them just screams misinformed idiot or foreign propaganda shill and should be dismissed by default.




  • Not who you replied to, but I always assumed that she sort of knew about her second personality from previous occasions when this had happened. The terraformer with the god complex (whom i found the real star of this episode, LET THERE BE LIGHT!) tells sisko about it, so it is implied that she is even aware herself whom she mr. Hydes into to some degree. She may not have the memories, but should know about her second personality.



  • German infrastructure has been neglected for several decades. In the past, the whole phone grid was nationalized under the Deutsche Telekom, which eventually got spun off into a regular company.

    For some insane reason the government basically let them keep almost all of the existing telecommunications infrastructure, giving them a quasi monopoly for many years and the lobbying power to delay upgrading the grid to modern fibre connections in favor of squeezing marginal improvements out of the old copper wires.

    Even today the upgrading is going slowly, but at least in cities the connections are reasonably fast, I have about 300 mbits in a fairly small town (about 200k people)








  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.worldtoich_iel@feddit.deich🏃💨iel
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    1 year ago

    Fühlt sich für mich immer so an wie humor an Karneval: typisch deutsch, schmerzhaft unlustig, und auf kleinkarierteste Weise institutionalisiert.

    Aber den downvotes nach zu urteilen wollen die Leute aus Gewohnheit wohl so weitermachen wie bisher (auch typisch deutsch).

    Schade dass der sub auch in seiner neuen Form wieder auf der filterliste landen muss


  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.worldtoich_iel@feddit.deich🏃💨iel
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    1 year ago

    Können wir nicht das zwanghafte eindeutschen zusammen mit reddit zurücklassen? Schon damals hätte ich gern mehr in den deutschen subs mitgemacht aber der eine, nicht mal lustige Witz der mit Gewalt am Leben gehalten wird macht jede Unterhaltung lächerlich. Können wir nicht einfach normal kommunizieren?






  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.worldtoSolarpunk@slrpnk.netTerry Pratchett's Boot Theory
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    The system is set up against the poor. Not only is long term quality something you usually cannot afford for your purchases as with the boot example, things that were normal goods are now commodities people must have a subscription for (or buy the quality version). All the late fees, overdraft fees, fixed rate parking tickets, anything is set up to fuck over the little guy and keep him poor and running in his hamster wheel.